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Purgatory at Grouse Mountain

Expert · 864 m long with 343 m of vertical, averaging 22° and 33° at its steepest, facing SE.

33°steepest 50 m
22°average pitch
864 mlength
343 mvertical
1221 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Purgatory is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Purgatory

Lifts that reach the top: Olympic Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Peak Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Magic Carpet (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Screaming Eagle Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Greenway Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Blue Grouse Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 10 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Blue Grouse Gondola
  2. Ski Chalet Road (easy)
  3. Ski Expo (intermediate)
  4. Ski Grinder Tracks (intermediate)
  5. Ski Mountain Highway (intermediate)
  6. Ski Purgatory (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Inferno, Mountain Highway, Glades, Heaven's Sake. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Olympic Express (1 min), Magic Carpet (2 min), Peak Chair (2 min).

See Purgatory on the 3D mapAll runs at Grouse Mountain
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.